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ashling

(25,771 posts) Fri Jun 7, 2013, 12:26 PM Jun 2013

Some call it pop!

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Some call it pop! (Original Post) ashling Jun 2013 OP

It's a damned good thing I wasn't born in the late 1800s. Wait Wut Jun 2013 #1

In those years Coke contained cocaine. RebelOne Jun 2013 #2

Pfft. Wait Wut Jun 2013 #3

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)

1. It's a damned good thing I wasn't born in the late 1800s.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Fri Jun 7, 2013, 12:43 PM

Jun 2013

If I had seen an ad telling me that I should drink Coke when I'm 'weary and despondent', someone would need to see a doctor about Coke bottle removal.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

2. In those years Coke contained cocaine.

Reply to Wait Wut (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 7, 2013, 02:46 PM

Jun 2013

That's why it helped the tired and weary.

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)

3. Pfft.

Reply to RebelOne (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 7, 2013, 02:51 PM

Jun 2013

It relieves 'mental and physical exhaustion' in Men (like businessmen and athletes), and weary despondent women.

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